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Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Post trade deadline (MLB)

We're now a little over 48 hours past the non-waver trade deadline in baseball, and some things have changed.  In the NL west its San Francisco and Arizona, the Giants added Carlos Beltran at the deadline with will add enough offense to their young pitching in order for the San Francisco Giants to win that division.  Arizona will battle it out with Atalanta to see who wins the wild-card.  Philadelphia who already has dominant pitching, added a few role players and will win the east.   Milwaukee and St. Louis, the Cardinals got some nice players getting ss Rafael Furcal, and pitchers Edwin Jackson, Marc Rzepcynsky, Octavio Dotel, will have a great race to decide who wins the central and with the Cardinals moves they may come out on top.  However these NL races turn out I would expect to see Philadelphia and San Francisco in the National League Championship.
In the AL its fun Texas, got the relief pitching they needed, is most likely going to win the west.  One of the  the best races should be the AL Central between Detroit and Cleveland, both of with addressed some needs (pitching)(Cleveland took a chance on Ubaldo Jimenez) at the deadline.  in the east it will be the Yankees and the Red Sox, the Yankees didn't make any moves but their pitching has come together (wrote about that earlier) and the Red Sox have lost some pitching, they got Eric Bedard but he doesn't scare me and I don't think scares anyone, I think that being said New York will win that division in another close race.  iI will be probably five teams for three spots in the post-season, Red Sox/Yankees, (one wins division, one wins the wild-card) Tigers/Indians, Angels.
Once the playoffs start I don't expect a pretty young Indian team to hang on.  If the Red Sox pitching doesn't come together they won't go far.  Texas has the pitching to hang on, I just don't know if they'll be able to harness it.  I'll expect to see New York and either Texas or Boston in the American League Championship.  In all of these races it's pitching thats going to propel teams to wins, pitching wins championships.                

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